Turkey Burgers Caprese

So tonight I made the mistake of dragging my poor family to Walmart before dinner. Dumb move, I know, but it had to be done. We were all starving by the time we were done. It took all my will power not to say "lets just go to Burger King because its right there and I like burgers." But I did it. We made it home and while the hubby fed the baby some pureed sweet potatoes, I went to work on dinner.

All I could think about was BURGERS. Luckily, I had bought a giant sleeve of pre-made turkey burgers at Costco. These saved dinner tonight.

While I cooked the burgers, I cut up some tomatoes and red onions. Then I sliced up a little mozzarella cheese. I washed up some green leaf lettuce and pulled off a big leaf for each of us and put them each on a plate. These I topped with the now fully cooked burgers. Then the mozzarella went on, then tomatoes and then the onion. I drizzled some balsamic vinegar over the top and sprinkled on some dried basil. Voila! Dinner

was done! How flippin' easy was that?!

They really turned out good. And the whole thing was just a little over 300 calories. Can you beat that?

Turkey Burgers Caprese

Honey, I know what I'm going to do today...

As I sat at the dinner table tonight, patting myself on the back for a particularly successful dinner that I had just thought up out of the blue, I looked over at my husband and said "I think I'll start a food blog." He smiled at me and, being the amazing/supportive/handsome husband that he is, says "I think that's a great idea." So here I am, starting my very own, brand new blog.

I guess you're asking yourself, why would she start a food blog? Aren't there like 1,234,679 of those already in existence? Because I'm awesome, that's why!

OK, maybe I am, maybe I'm not (it really depends on who you talk to) but one thing that I am sure about is that I really love to eat. I mean LOVE it. When people ask me what my favorite food is, I'm never able to really say for sure. Some days its steamed snow crab, other days its chocolate covered caramel (today I would probably say peach cobbler. Doesn't that sound AMAZING?) It changes all the time. There are really only two things that I can think of that I really don't like to eat: Liver and Sushi (I know, weird, right? I like all the individual bits, but put it all together and BLEH!")

Now for the real point of this blog. Recently, my husband and I decided to start eating differently. In the past we kind of just ate with the reckless abandon of people in their early 20's. Loving each bite for what it was, not for its calorie content. This worked (sort of) until we decided that we should have kids. Add together a loss of time for workouts, emergency oh-my-god-I'm exhausted, just order pizza-nights, and devouring half a batch of chocolate chip cookies that I baked to relieve some stress, and you end up with some extra poundage. So after trying on my swimsuit that didn't fit like I remembered, I said to my husband "something has to change." So we downloaded a calorie counting app for our iPhones and started recording everything we ate.

So far its working really well. When I feel like I have a budget for calories every day, it makes me more accountable for what I put in my mouth. I've actually lost 6 lbs in a little over a week by only making sure I don't go over 1800 calories per day.

OK, I digress a little. The point of this blog isn't about weight loss. Its about food. Yummy, delicious food. It won't all be health food. Next weekend is my daughter's 3rd birthday and I know I'll be making some vanilla cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. They're going to be so yummy (I use a recipe from Magnolia Bakery. Its SO GOOD). All I want to do is share the things that I make because food makes me happy.